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Tell me something new. We don't need scientists for that to know. :D
Every stars are aligned. We are At the top level of capitalism greed. For decades tech companies have piled up as much cash as possible sucking every dime selling their product. Now they want to rent their service instead. The best to do that is to host the service on a super computer, the user having only a low power terminal. They deliberately crippled the os to use the maximum ram and said we need to update our computer for ai and other things most don’t want, don’t need and don’t have the money to pay for it. The best move is to exchange their huge pile of cash to drain the whole market to build data centres. They now want everyone to become dependant on ai and pay them a significant part of our salary to satisfy their shareholders.
They put the onus on AI for the price increase but honestly I believe the ram cartel is responsible to the same degree.
Either way, it looks like we're soon getting an out, because both of those things are at the brink of changing. And if any one of us has any say in this, they should make sure these things change as fast as possible.
The cartel can only price fix because no other foundry wanted their stock price to go down because of small margins.
AMD sold their foundry. Intel has a foundry. They could have made ram to ensure long term growth but that would have affected their quarterly profit.
For all we know AMD would have just joined them.
It's just really depressing to see the global economy basically be held ransom by 3 companies just because the EU and America didn't properly slam those companies the first time. History doesn't repeat itself but there's been way too much historic poetry lately.
The US couldn't slam Asian businesses for price fixing if they wanted those same countries to buy American price fixed food. That's why it was a slap on the wrist. It was only political theatre.
Consumer: Prices have been falling :)
Shareholders: Prices have been falling :(
Oh so that’s the real reason
this post was submitted on 08 Aug 2026
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